broken heart

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   devastating sorrow and despair

   “he is recovering from a broken heart”

   “a broken heart languishes here”

   Broadersorrow

Questions about broken heart

What does broken heart mean?

broken heart means "devastating sorrow and despair".

Is broken heart a common word?

broken heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.